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1909 â Sir Hardy Amies was for 48 years the Queen's official dressmaker (d.2003). As a couturier he was known for his restrained, conservative, but beautifully tailored suits and dresses. He was also famed for his self-confessed snobbery.
Born in London, Edwin Hardy Amies was the son of a civil servant and a saleswoman at a firm that made clothing for members of the Court. After leaving school in 1927 he worked in France and Germany, where he became fluent in French and German. He returned to England in 1933 and was appointed designer at London's House of Lachasse. By 1935 he was managing director as well as chief designer. Lachasse closed in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II.
During the war, Amies served in the intelligence corps. He also continued designing clothes for the domestic market that conformed to the requirements of clothes rationing, as well as luxury couture to sell abroad.
On leaving the army in 1946 Amies bought a bombed out house on Savile Row and set up his own couture house. In 1951 the then Princess Elizabeth asked Amies to design some day clothes for a tour of Canada. This was the beginning of a long and productive relationship.
In 1955 Amies became, by appointment, one of the new queen's dressmakers. He continued in this position until 1990 when he felt it was time for younger designers to dress the queen. In 1989, in recognition of his long service as the queen's dressmaker, he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
In addition to his royal duties, he was an influential couture and ready-to-wear designer, and occasionally designed for the stage and films - notably the costumes for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In his old age Amies was relaxed about acknowledging his homosexuality, often referring to it in a witty (and somewhat bitchy) fashion. Speaking of his royal dressmaking rival Sir Norman Hartnell, he said, 'It's quite simple. He was a silly old queen and I'm a clever old queen.'
He lived quietly with one man for many years but, when he went out socially, the lover remained at home:Â 'It's just too common for two men to go around together,'Â he explained. He was, though, proud of the fact that he never lost his eye for youth and beauty.
Amies and his partner, Ken Fleetwood (who was design director of Hardy Amies Ltd), were together for 43 years until Fleetwood's death in 1996.
1927 â Roy Stuart (d.2005) was an American character actor. He is best known for playing Corporal Charles "Chuck" Boyle on television's Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. during seasons two, three, and four from 1965 to 1968.
Born in The Bronx, New York, Stuart launched his career performing in nightclubs and theatre. His stage credits include the Broadway musicals Beg, Borrow or Steal (1960) and Cafe Crown (1964).
Stuart's TV guest appearances include Mister Ed, Bewitched, The Mothers-In-Law, Room 222, The Governor & J.J.; Love, American Style; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Santa Barbara, Hotel, Gidget, Hazel, One Day at a Time, Sanford and Son, CHiPs, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Golden Girls, General Hospital, Laverne & Shirley and Mama's Family. He also appeared in numerous television commercials.
A long-standing member of Theatre West, Stuart also performed in local Theatre Forty productions of Absurd Person Singular and The Sunshine Boys.
Roy Stuart died at age 78 of cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, Woodland Hills, California. He is survived by his companion, Claude Hubert.
1941 â Born in Long Beach, CA, porn director Fred Halsted (d.1989) said that although they were working class and he had to help with agricultural jobs to earn money for his mom, he grew up in "paradise. A life of being free. As a kid I was able to run naked through a hundred miles of orange groves in fragrant bloom."
He maintained his joy in plants â majoring in botany at L.A. State, owning a nursery in El Monte, doing gardening work for Joey Heatherton and Vincent Price â but he couldn't yet regain that youthful sexual freedom. He said he was a petit bourgeois and "the biggest closet queen you can be" and even a raw entrapment by the vice squad in 1967 didn't change him.
What finally shattered him was RFK's assassination. After that, he decided he wanted to make the world a better place, and make a lot of money, through porn, including the first ever depictions of certain hardcore S/M acts.
Long before video and digital, Halsted spent three years shooting film for L.A. Plays Itself. It was 1972 and he says his was the first gay porn to be told from a sadist's point of view. It was definitely the first to be screened like an art film for big name New York critics. And surely the first to have a sex scene with no sex â just shots of West Hollywood traffic while you hear the voice of an older top and young hayseed negotiating their needs.
Soon enough, financial success and critical acclaim caught up with him; his vision helped define the macho man gay look of the 1970s and still today the only hardcore movies in the Film Collection of MoMA are Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself and Sex Garage.
His club, Halsted's, located at 2453 Glendale Blvd., Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, was, as he himself described it, a naked industrial space transformed into "a stand-up fuck club". Founded by Halsted, his lover Joseph Yale, and David Webb, the club had booths with glory holes, bunk beds, and a sling. Its most distinguishing characteristic was four truck trailers that were parked in the back inside a walled yard. At the time, empty truck trailers were a popular venue for gay sex in the meatpacking district of New York City. The club only lasted about a year; Halsted admitted that "Los Angeles did not have enough perverts" to support the club. Before it closed, he filmed A Night at Halsted's there.
But the 80s were a bad time for him, with more commercialized, video porn, his worsening alcoholism, and the advent of AIDS, which killed his long-time lover, onscreen co-star, and tormentor, Joey Yale aka Joseph Yanoska, in 1986. Halsted shot himself in the head in 1989.
1948 - Wayne Sleep OBE is a British dancer, director, choreographer and panelist. He was a Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet and has appeared as a Guest Artist with several other ballet companies.
At only 5'2", Sleep is famous for being the shortest male dancer ever admitted into the Royal Ballet School. Had he not left his audition for the school early and missed his final physical examination, he would not have gained a place. Because of his diminutive stature many directors were reluctant to cast him in traditional male lead roles. As a result many roles were created for him by noted choreographers. Sleep created the role of Mr. Mistoffelees in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats in London's West End, at the New London Theatre, on 11 May 1981.
Sleep runs workshops all over the Britain that children of over the age of six can attend.
Sleep is mentioned numerous times in the film Billy Elliot, and also in the British stage musical version of this film. (On Broadway references to Sleep were changed to Rudolf Nureyev.)
As well as being out as gay, Sleep has stated he is also attracted to women but has not been intimate with any for many years.
In 2011, having just recovered from a hip replacement operation, was delighted with the fact that at the age of 62, just 12 weeks after the operation, he was back on stage at Covent Garden dancing the role of an Ugly Sister in the ballet of Cinderella.
1984 â John James "J.J." McCullough is a Canadian journalist, author, and political and social commentary YouTuber who makes videos about various topics relating to Canada, facts about history, the cultures of different countries, and sometimes Canadian politics. He lives in Vancouver.
Most of his videos are around 10-15 minutes, and most of the videos have good responses. He sometimes does travel videos and has visited several countries during the life of his channel. He claims he tries to make his videos have a "timeless" quality, but they do sometimes reference current events, such as elections.
Most of the thumbnails show his face with a reaction with large text and colorful background. His videos often feature his own drawings.
J.J. is openly gay, and has mentioned his sexuality in many of his videos.
2013 â Britain legalises same-sex marriage. The bill cleared the British Parliament on the 16th and Queen Elizabeth gave her royal assent today, making the bill law. It will allow couples already in a civil partnership to convert their relationship to a marriage.
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